Mad City

Mad City
Author: Michael Arntfield
Publisher: Little a
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: College students
ISBN: 9781503942646

"A chilling, unflinching exploration of American crimes of the twentieth century and how one serial killer managed to slip through the cracks--until now."--

In Our Mad and Furious City

In Our Mad and Furious City
Author: Guy Gunaratne
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 149
Release: 2018-12-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0374720363

Long-listed for the 2018 Man Booker Prize Short-listed for the 2018 Gordon Burn Prize Short-listed for the 2018 Goldsmiths Prize Inspired by the real-life murder of a British army soldier by religious fanatics, Guy Gunaratne’s In Our Mad and Furious City is a snapshot of the diverse, frenzied edges of modern-day London. A crackling debut from a vital new voice, it pulses with the frantic energy of the city’s homegrown grime music and is animated by the youthful rage of a dispossessed, overlooked, and often misrepresented generation. While Selvon, Ardan, and Yusuf organize their lives around soccer, girls, and grime, Caroline and Nelson struggle to overcome pasts that haunt them. Each voice is uniquely insightful, impassioned, and unforgettable, and when stitched together, they trace a brutal and vibrant tapestry of today’s London. In a forty-eight-hour surge of extremism and violence, their lives are inexorably drawn together in the lead-up to an explosive, tragic climax. In Our Mad and Furious City documents the stark disparities and bubbling fury coursing beneath the prosperous surface of a city uniquely on the brink. Written in the distinctive vernaculars of contemporary London, the novel challenges the ways in which we coexist now—and, more important, the ways in which we often fail to do so.

Diary of a Roblox Noob

Diary of a Roblox Noob
Author: Robloxia Kid
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 98
Release: 2019-04-04
Genre:
ISBN: 9781092711104

Over 3,500 Positive Ratings on Goodreads for RKID series!SWAT Agents Grab Noob and Throw Him in Mad City Prison Suddenly the door is kicked open with a crash! Roblox Noob is innocently binge watching TV and scarfing down a yummy pizza when SWAT agents grab him and bodily drag him out of his house. Before he can even figure out what's happening, he's thrown into Mad City Prison. There's a reason it's called that. The worst criminals in the world are behind bars there. Noob doesn't belong there! He doesn't even stomp on disgusting roaches. KingPat, a mysterious and powerful entity, is responsible for his capture. He's bent on destroying Noob. But, KingPat isn't the only dangerous character. In prison, Noob encounters Decks. Decks can only be described as an unstable psycho. But even though he's supremely dangerous, Noob needs his help to escape Mad City prison. They plan their nearly impossible roblox jailbreak, but the perils of larger Mad City await like a sharp-toothed dog. Be the first robloxia kid to read Noob's new adventure in Roblox: Mad City! Do you love Roblox? Then, you'll love Robloxia Kid books! RKID books breathe new life into the exciting world of Roblox. Venture on an exciting journey to the edges of the Roblox universe with new characters, head-spinning plots, and uncontrollable laughter. Just as Noob gets more masterful in his gaming strategies, you'll become a top player at reading too! Reading flows easily when you're immersed in the world of Roblox. Noob's diary is perfect for fans of video game books like the Trapped in a Video Game series and Cube Kid books.

City of Saints and Madmen

City of Saints and Madmen
Author: Jeff VanderMeer
Publisher: Picador
Total Pages: 674
Release: 2022-01-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0374721157

From Jeff VanderMeer, the author of Borne and Annihilation, comes the paperback reissue of his cult classic City of Saints and Madmen. In this reinvention of the literature of the fantastic, you hold in your hands an invitation to a place unlike any you’ve ever visited—an invitation delivered by one of our most audacious and astonishing literary magicians. City of elegance and squalor. Of religious fervor and wanton lusts. And everywhere, on the walls of courtyards and churches, an incandescent fungus of mysterious and ominous origin. In Ambergris, a would-be suitor discovers that a sunlit street can become a killing ground in the blink of an eye. An artist receives an invitation to a beheading—and finds himself enchanted. And a patient in a mental institution is convinced that he’s made up a city called Ambergris, imagined its every last detail, and that he’s really from a place called Chicago . . . By turns sensuous and terrifying, filled with exotica and eroticism, this interwoven collection of stories, histories, and “eyewitness” reports invokes a universe within a puzzle box where you can lose—and find—yourself again.

Mad Scenes and Exit Arias

Mad Scenes and Exit Arias
Author: Heidi Waleson
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2018-10-02
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1627794972

From the Wall Street Journal's opera critic, a wide-ranging narrative history of how and why the New York City Opera went bankrupt—and what it means for the future of the arts In October 2013, the arts world was rocked by the news that the New York City Opera—“the people’s opera”—had finally succumbed to financial hardship after 70 years in operation. The company had been a fixture on the national opera scene—as the populist antithesis of the grand Metropolitan Opera, a nurturing home for young American talent, and a place where new, lively ideas shook up a venerable art form. But NYCO’s demise represented more than the loss of a cherished organization: it was a harbinger of massive upheaval in the performing arts—and a warning about how cultural institutions would need to change in order to survive. Drawing on extensive research and reporting, Heidi Waleson, one of the foremost American opera critics, recounts the history of this scrappy company and reveals how, from the beginning, it precariously balanced an ambitious artistic program on fragile financial supports. Waleson also looks forward and considers some better-managed, more visionary opera companies that have taken City Opera’s lessons to heart. Above all, Mad Scenes and Exit Arias is a story of money, ego, changes in institutional identity, competing forces of populism and elitism, and the ongoing debate about the role of the arts in society. It serves as a detailed case study not only for an American arts organization, but also for the sustainability and management of nonprofit organizations across the country.

Mad Shadows

Mad Shadows
Author: Joe Bonadonna
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2011-01-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1450276164

Valdar is a city of swordslingers and necromancers, witch cults and halfhuman races. Its a city in a world of darkness, black magic and creatures of the night . . . a city where demonic entities serve the needs of any witch or magicman who can open a doorway into their domain. This is my city. This is my world. With a special dowsing rod, I can detect the ectoplasmic residue of any supernatural presence or demonic entity and sense the vestiges of odylic power and vile sorcery used in the commission of crimes. I hunt anyone and anything that poses a threat to the people of my city. My names Dorgo. Folks call me the Dowser. From infernal depths where lost souls mutate into hell-spawned devils, from the other side of the veil that separates the earthly from the unearthly, from an ancient land whose borders cross into other dimensions, Mad ShadowsThe Weird Tales of Dorgo the Dowser, will transport you to a world where sentient shadows, vengeful vampires, malevolent puppets, and raging werewolves haunt the night . . . a world where life is cheap and souls are always up for sale.

Mad Mary Lamb

Mad Mary Lamb
Author: Susan Tyler Hitchcock
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2005
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780393057416

After killing her mother with a carving knife, Mary Lamb spent the rest of her life in and out of madhouses; yet the crime and its aftermath opened up a new life. Freed to read extensively, she discovered her talent for writing and, with her brother, the essayist Charles Lamb, collaborated on the famous Tales from Shakespeare. This narrative of a nearly forgotten woman is a tapestry of insights into creativity and madness, the changing lives of women, and the redemptive power of the written word.

Shanshui City

Shanshui City
Author: Ma Yansong
Publisher: Lars Müller Publishers
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Architectural photography
ISBN: 9783037784570

'Shanshui City', the latest book from MAD Architects' founder and principal partner, Ma Yansong, Ma's poetic, yet precise language details the development and practice of design philosophy At the core of 'Shanshui City' is the idea that, "architects should delineate a new ideal for the city of the future, to gradually construct an urban environment that embodies both the convenience of the modern city and the ancient Eastern affinity for the natural world." 'Shanshui' is an idealised worldview developed by Chinese through extended contact with the natural world, a worldview that integrates the everyday life of humanity with the impulse to seek spiritual refuge in nature. This 'Shanshui City' is not simply an eco-city, or a garden-city, nor does it imply modelling the city's architecture on natural forms such as mountains. It represents humanity's affinity for the natural world, and our quest for inner fulfilment, as expressed in philosophies of the East. 103 illustrations

New York Magazine

New York Magazine
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 166
Release: 1997-11-17
Genre:
ISBN:

New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.